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By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:28 pm

Students Against T Cuts is just what it sounds like: Area college students working to fight proposed cuts at the T. Repeal forward funding, they argue.

By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:45 am

So far this cold January morning, trains have died on the Red, Blue and Green lines and the Worcester Line is experiencing major delays.

At 8:34 a.m., Tanya K. tweeted:

Two empty, broken down trains we will be pushing in. 1000+ frozen, frustrated people cramming into this one. MBTA Red Line. Good times.

A few minutes later, Candice Springer added:

By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:34 am

The Outraged Liberal notes the MBTA has announced its Doomsday Machine (again). Will the legislature blink?

Davey says that bailout is unlikely in the state's current climate, which can mean only one thing: change the climate with a proposal that is so awful lawmakers will have to cave.

By adamg - 1/3/12 - 9:43 am

No, don't worry, the T probably isn't planning on raising fares that much. But, as the Patriot Ledger reports, thieves are now trolling the parking lots at commuter-rail and Red Line stops and stealing catalytic converters off cars - a seasoned thief can saw one off in less than 30 seconds. They get $200 for their "scrap" converters, you get a $1,000 bill for a new one.

By adamg - 1/1/12 - 6:43 pm

Harp player at Downtown Crossing

By adamg - 1/1/12 - 3:40 pm

And this guy, spotted by a T worker at Back Bay station today, has probably just exceeded it:

Bicyclist at Back Bay

By adamg - 12/30/11 - 11:23 am

The MBTA reports systemwide ridership in November increased by 5.5% over last year - and marked the third straight month of ridership above 1.3 million trips on a weekday.

By adamg - 12/27/11 - 9:29 am

Updated late Monday.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo issued the following statement Tuesday afternoon:

The employee today was reprimanded and the incident is now included in his personnel file. No further action will be taken unless such an incident happens again. This matter is closed.

Channel 25 reports the case of the reprogrammed message board on Christmas went straight to the top - and state transportation czar Rich Davey says the unidentified worker will not be punished.

By adamg - 12/25/11 - 8:03 pm

When it doesn't think anybody's around, the automaton that runs the MBTA PA system can be quite jolly.

By adamg - 12/23/11 - 10:50 pm

Around 9:40 p.m. Suspects are two Hispanic males, one 18 or 19, 5'8" and wearing a black and gray North Face jacket, the other about 5'6" and dressed in a black top and pants.

By adamg - 12/23/11 - 9:02 am

So far this morning, a charred 39 bus was towed from Huntington Avenue near Brigham Circle and buses had to be rolled out for the C line when an overhead power line came down near Cleveland Circle.

By adamg - 12/22/11 - 6:24 pm

Trains in both directions came to a halt this evening as police ordered power to the third rails shut off while they got the guy off the tracks.

By adamg - 12/20/11 - 5:23 pm

A teenager was arrested this afternoon on charges he punched the operator of a trolley about to leave Mattapan for Ashmont, the MBTA says.

A spokeswoman said the incident happened around 2:15 and that investigators do not yet know why the teen decided to punch. The operator was taken to a local hospital for a non-life-threatening facial injury; the teen was nabbed nearby.

By adamg - 12/20/11 - 10:39 am

A worker at Conover Tuttle Pace downtown came into work this morning rather distraught because she lost her engagment ring on the train into work. But a conductor found the ring and turned it in and now it's back on her finger.

By adamg - 12/20/11 - 8:22 am

The Boston Business Journal reports the MBTA plans to go ahead with an idea from a local startup - which the T says, however, is not guaranteed the contract to implement it all.

Ed. question: Didn't the old T passes sometimes have ads on them? The article doesn't answer the question of how to avoid Coraline-like ads on cards designed to last a decade.

By adamg - 12/19/11 - 7:33 pm

Downed power lines somewhere in the Canton area mean no Amtrak service between Boston and New York and, of course, massive delays on the Providence/Stoughton Line that have left stranded commuters hoping for the buses the T is promising.

By adamg - 12/19/11 - 6:12 pm

Channel 4 reports an MBTA cop has been suspended for allegedly using his cruiser to drive his prostitute girlfriend to assignations - including one with a man who stiffed her, leading to the cop's trip to a UPS store with a couple of dead rodents.

By adamg - 12/19/11 - 9:36 am

A Worcester Line train died this morning in Natick; commuters on that train and the one behind it, which wound up pushing it into town, were, of course, seriously late.

Some trains into North Station were delayed by the ever popular switch problems. At least one Greenbush train was also late because, well, who knows?

By adamg - 12/18/11 - 10:26 am

The Herald reports on this amazing thing. One wonders when Forest Hills will get something like that.

By adamg - 12/17/11 - 1:49 pm

Two tweets from your basic Saturday on the T:

Derek Lumpkins: "Never thought I'd see someone carry a Christmas tree on the subway."

Dan Moriarty: "The MBTA: Where watching a woman lick the cut on her kneecap is normal."

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